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US interest rates : are relations stable?
Karlsson, Sune; Kiss, Tamás; Nguyen, Hoang; … - 2024
In this paper, we assess whether key relations between US interest rates have been stable over time. This is done by estimating trivariate hybrid time-varying parameter Bayesian VAR models with stochastic volatility for the three-month Treasury bill rate, the slope of the Treasury yield curve...
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External shocks and FX intervention policy in emerging economies
Carrasco, Alex; Florián Hoyle, David - 2021
This paper discusses the role of sterilized foreign exchange (FX) interventions as a monetary policy instrument for emerging market economies in response to external shocks. We develop a model for a commodity-exporting small open economy in which FX intervention is considered as a balance sheet...
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Illiquidity and all its friends
Tirole, Jean - 2010
The recent crisis was characterized by massive illiquidity. This paper reviews what we know and don't know about illiquidity and all its friends: market freezes, fire sales, contagion, and ultimately insolvencies and bailouts. It first explains why liquidity cannot easily be apprehended through...
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International credit markets and global business cycles
Pintus, Patrick A.; Wen, Yi; Xin, Xiaochuan - 2018 - This version: May 14, 2018
subject to self-fulfilling variations in the world real interest rate. Those expectation-driven changes in the borrowing cost … asset prices, GDP, consumption, investment and employment). When firms around the world benefit from unexpectedly low debt … internationally. Such a stylized model thus offers one way to rationalize both the existence of world business-cycle factor documented …
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Climate alpha and the global capital market
Golub, Alexander; Anda, Jon; Markandya, Anil; Brody, Michael - 2022
The way in which climate policy and climate risks are currently accounted for in financial and real investment decisions is inadequate. The paper demonstrates weaknesses in methods presently used and proposes an alternative that aims to bridge the duration gap between climate policy modeling and...
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A new predictor of U.S. real economic activity : the S&P 500 option implied risk aversion
Faccini, Renato; Konstantinidi, Eirini; Skiadopoulos, George - 2018
We propose a new predictor of U.S. real economic activity (REA), namely the representative investor's implied relative risk aversion (IRRA) extracted from S&P 500 option prices. IRRA is forward-looking and hence, it is expected to be related to future economic conditions. We document that U.S....
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Hierarchical time varying estimation of a multi factor asset pricing model
Baillie, Richard; Calonaci, Fabio; Kapetanios, George - 2019
This paper presents a new hierarchical methodology for estimating multi factor dynamic asset pricing models. The approach is loosely based on the sequential approach of Fama and MacBeth (1973). However, the hierarchical method uses very flexible bandwidth selection methods in kernel weighted...
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Will macroprudential policy counteract monetary policy's effects on financial stability?
Agur, Itai; Demertzis, Maria - 2018
How does monetary policy impact upon macroprudential regulation? This paper models monetary policy's transmission to bank risk taking, and its interaction with a regulator's optimization problem. The regulator uses its macroprudential tool, a leverage ratio, to maintain financial stability,...
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Recessions, the energy mix and environmental policy
Deb, Pragyan; Furceri, Davide; Ostry, Jonathan David; … - 2023
How do severe recessions, such as those brought about by the Global Financial Crisis or the COVID-19 pandemic, affect the composition of energy generation between green and dirty sources? Does creative destruction during recessions result in a sustained greening of the energy mix? The empirical...
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Risk spillovers between global corporations and Latin American sovereigns : global factors matter
Gómez González, José Eduardo; Uribe, Jorge; … - 2022
This paper studies volatility spillovers in credit default swaps (CDS) between the corporate sectors and Latin American countries. Daily data from October 14, 2006, to August 23, 2021, are employed. Spillovers are computed both for the raw data and for filtered series which factor out the effect...
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